Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yamamoto Yuji

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 00:08, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yamamoto Yuji

_ _ Nom & vote Del on this 1999 U of Chicago MA Humanities graduate with "263 of 515" Google hits on

"Yamamoto Yuji" -"Yuji Katsui" -"Yuji Matsumoto" -golf -actor

and (due to apparent high prevalence of both surname & given name, so that combinations give false hits) very few possibly relevant hits among the first few dozen.
_ _ Initial edit of

6 English words,

4 Japanese characters (name), and

2 lks to lists

was 22 February 2003 with summary "Takubot" by IP that now rdr's to the very prolific User:TakuyaMurata; that puts it in the first 2 months of their editing.
_ _ The rest of the CV-style body text was contributed 14 months later in 6 edits in a 33-minute window by a different IP with, entirely in one 1.25 hour window, these & 9 other edits to 3 other articles and a Dab, all with apparently Japanese-language names.
_ _ IMO, this should be presumed to be a stub near the edge of speedy deletion, converted (probably in good faith!) into a n-n autobio by its subject, pending evidence to the contrary.
--Jerzy•t 02:14, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete no assertion of notability. Edit history is suspicious. Dottore So 10:56, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Dottore So. --MacRusgail 13:45, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I was initially suspicious about the likely accuracy of searching in English for a Japanese author who writes in Japanese, particularly given that the romanisation issues mean that the guy's name could also be spelt "Yuuji", "Yuuzi", "Yuzi", or half a dozen other ways, but it turns out that Japanese searches actually produce fewer hits (about 100, though they all seem to be about the right person). He has released a number of translations of authors like O. Henry, Kipling, and Conan Doyle, but they have all been published only as free e-texts, so I don't think they count for WP:BIO purposes. — Haeleth Talk 17:19, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

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